Mclean Don - Starry Starry Night Lyrics

Mclean Don
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Starry Starry Night
Starry Starry night
Paint your palette
blue and grey
Look out on a
summer's day
With eyes that know
the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and
the daffodils
Catch the breeze and
the winter chills
In colours on the
snowy linen land.

For they could not
love you
But still, your love
was true
And when no hope was
left inside
On that starry,
starry night
You took your life
as lovers often do
But I could've told
you, Vincent
This world was never
meant for one as beautiful as you...

Portraits hung in
empty halls
Frameless heads on
nameless walls
With eyes that watch
the world and can't forget
Like the strangers
that you've met
The ragged men in
ragged clothes
The silver thorn, a
bloody rose
Lie crushed and
broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know
What you tried to
say, to me
How you suffered for
your sanity
And how you tried to
set them free
They would not
listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never
will...

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Anonymous

This beautiful song now seems to me to be an allegory of the life of Jesus Christ. I used to think it perhaps exhalted VanGough too much, but now I love it; happy/sad and so glad to have this song. I am writing an arrangement of it combined with Adolphe Adam's powerful Christmas song, "O Holy Night" and a bit of 'Twinkle, twinkle' to close (for years Kinder,1 and 2).